A reader who has email address as phungthanhx@xx sent an email to the Legal Counseling Office of Lao Dong newspaper to ask: Our Company was established in 2014 and was granted a seal sample registration certificate by the police. Recently, our company has just registered to change its head office address to another district, does it have to redo a new seal and return the old seal?

Lawyer Pham Thi Hang, YouMe Law Firm answers:

Article 15 of Decree 96/2015/ND-CP detailing a number of articles of the Enterprise Law regulating the management and use of seals are as follows:

1 Businesses that are established before July 1, 2015, may continue to use the seals already granted to them without having to notify the seal designs to the business registration agency. In case a business makes an additional seal or changes the seal ink color, it shall carry out seal design notification procedures according to businesses registration regulations.

2. Businesses were established before July 1, 2015, that makes a new seal in accordance with this Decree shall return the old seal and seal design registration certificate to the public security agency that has granted such certificate. The public security agency shall issue a receipt of the seal upon receiving it.

3. Businesses were established before July 1, 2015, that loses theirs seal or seal design registration certificate may make a seal in accordance with this Decree, and at the same time notify such loss to the public security agency that has granted the seal design registration certificate.

4. Businesses shall notify its seal design to the business registration agency of the locality where the businesses head are located for the latter to post information on the National Enterprise Registration Portal in the following cases:

a/ Making a seal for the first time upon enterprise registration;

b/ Changing the number, content and design of a seal and its ink color;

c/ Destroying the seal design.

5. The order, procedures and dossier for seal design notification must comply with enterprise registration regulations.

Thus, when making a new seal, your company must return the seal and seal sample registration certificate to the police agency where the seal sample registration certificate has been issued. 

According to PHAM HANG (Labor Newspaper)